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title: "Using redirects"
canonical_url: https://support.digitalphotogallery.com/articles/article/245fdc06-080e-11e6-8390-16474ff850f4
short_url: https://dpg.support/adcb
category: "Guides > Teams > Using DPG for collaborative galleries > Managing Websites"
locale: en
updated_at: 2017-10-03T14:35:36Z
source: Digital Photo Gallery Support
---

# Using redirects

A redirect is a way to send visitors to a different URL from the one they originally requested. For example, you may want to redirect from the main gallery page to the current day's content during a weekend-long festival and to a Highlights page once the event is over. 

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### Adding a redirect
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Go to the website requiring the redirect and open the **Redirects** panel in the sidebar. Enter the URL that you want to redirect **From** and **To**.

If you're redirecting within the same website, you only need to add the last part of the domain, for example to redirect from the main homepage to the Days page you should enter from: **/** to: **/2017/days/**

Then click the **Add** button. Once your redirect is added, make sure to visit the website to verify that it redirects as expected.

![](https://cache.media.digitalphotogallery.com/hyqelgcvfopo/images/e73e9b58-a7b4-11e7-8f5c-b68a4d6fbdb2/977_support.jpg?generated=20171002220351)

You can create several redirects ahead of time and remove them at your convenience. If the redirects are going from the same URL, only the first in the list will be active at any one time.}

### Removing a redirect
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To import a redirect, use the drop down menu to change the Update Method to **Import**. Select a file to import (see below for a sample file) and click the **Add** button.

### Sample redirects
This is a sample set of redirects which you can download and import:

[Download: musicfestival2017publicwebsiteredirects.zip](http://media.digitalphotogallery.com/hyqelgcvfopo/downloads/musicfestival2017publicwebsiteredirects.zip) — Festival Redirects 2017

Once imported this file will add the following redirects:

* From / To /2017/gallery/?image_keywords=day:Thursday
* From / To /2017/gallery/?image_keywords=day:Friday
* From / To /2017/gallery/?image_keywords=day:Saturday
* From / To /2017/gallery/?image_keywords=day:Sunday
* From / To /2017/gallery/?image_keywords=highlights:2017

### Exporting redirects

![](https://cache.media.digitalphotogallery.com/hyqelgcvfopo/images/0bde69d0-a7b9-11e7-9352-b68a4d6fbdb2/981_support.jpg?generated=20171002223149)

You can export a set of redirects to use again by clicking the **Export** button. Import this file as necessary.